BY MARK TAPSCOTT | APRIL 19, 2015 | 5:00 AM
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is drawing a populist bead on lavish Wall Street pay packages as she revs up her march to the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but in some respects the fat-per-speech fee she can charge puts her far ahead of the top 10 highest-paid American CEOs.
“I think it’s fair to say that if you look across the country, the deck is stacked in favor of those already at the top. There’s something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the American worker…,” Clinton said during her first campaign swing last week at an Iowa community college.
Bashing Wall Streeters is part of Clinton’s strategy of remaking her image to appear more sympathetic to middle class voters, while also appealing to left-wing Democrats who are attracted to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and the even more radical supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist who talks of seeking the 2016 nomination.
So what all these liar politicians have been cashing in for decades, what is the problem?
#1: The problem is, her astronomical earnings go completely against the message of her opening campaign statements. She’s a 1-percenter of the 1-percenters.
So true Declan but they still believe her.
From the Daily News:
Former Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) was paid nearly $20 million lobbying for drug companies from 2006 to 2010, according to reports.
Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), the former Senate majority leader, disclosed that he earned $2.1 million for lobbying work when President Obama nominated him — unsuccessfully — to serve as secretary of health and human services in 2009.
Former Rep. Steve Largent (R-Okla.) makes better money lobbying for a trade group of cell phone companies than he did as a Hall of Fame NFL wide receiver. He makes $1.5 million, the group disclosed.
Ben Nelson, a Democrat who represented Nebraska in the Senate, pockets nearly $1 million a year as head of the National Association of Insurance Commissions, according to reports on his hiring.
And the Motion Picture Association of America paid former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) $3.3 million in 2012 to represent Hollywood’s interests in Washington.